“I would concur with that,” the Newcastle United manager says in response to Everton’s point deduction query.

Eddie Howe has previewed Newcastle United’s Premier League time out to Everton on Thursday night time

Eddie Howe says Newcastle United are “going to have to reply to a lot of questions” when they face Everton at Goodison Park on Thursday night time (kick-off 7:30pm).

The Toffees sit interior the Premier League relegation region after being docked 10 points final month for breaching the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules. Had Sean Dyche’s facet averted that deduction then they’d be sat thirteenth in the table, eight points above the bottom three.

Everton appealed the punishment ultimate week and have been buoyed via the situation. There were wild protests in opposition to the Premier League in the remaining domestic fit against Manchester United before that was once followed up by way of a 1-0 win at Nottingham Forest at the weekend.

Given the atmosphere surrounding the Merseyside club and the physical danger they pose, Howe has challenged his gamers to upward shove to the occasion.

The Magpies’ boss said: “I’d agree with that. They have made big strides as a crew and have been very, very competitive. And I think the biggest undertaking for us is to make sure we compete as they do.

“They’re a very strong, physical group and bought obvious strengths. They will pose questions for us defensively which we have to answer.

They’ve also got the crowd and that dynamic and the situation they’re in with the factors deduction and what’s carried out for them collectively. We’re going to have to respond to a lot of questions. ”

Speaking previously about Everton’s factors deduction, Howe said: “Financial Fair Play has been a difficult one for anybody to – myself included – get our heads around as a football membership because it’s come in and each and every club has to work towards it inside the guidelines,. t’s absolutely now not my choice in phrases of what takes place financially, that’s the membership and I suppose the membership has managed the situation very well beneath pressure to invest and to improve the squad and to attempt to cross things forward as shortly as possible.

“The Everton situation came out of the blue, I think, for all of us in terms of the verdict. They’ve obtained an splendid manager there who has carried out outstanding things until now in difficult instances and I’d back Sean to do the equal again.”